Artificial Intelligence in Fashion Technology and E-commerce

This report explores the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) within the fashion industry and e-commerce platforms. It details how AI, particularly through visual recognition and machine learning, has transformed the way consumers search for and purchase clothing, enhancing user experiences by enabling features like image-based product searches. The report highlights the advantages of AI in visual recognition, making fashion trends more accessible and facilitating the discovery of similar, more affordable items. Furthermore, it addresses the legal frameworks surrounding AI-generated fashion designs, specifically focusing on copyright issues in various regions, including Italy, the United States, the United Kingdom, and other countries. The analysis covers the challenges of assigning authorship to AI and the varying legal approaches to protecting AI-created works, referencing relevant legal precedents and regulations.

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Discussions
Artificial intelligence refers to the imitation of intelligence of humans in machines
those are programmed in order to think like humans and then imitate the actions of humans.
The term artificial intelligence can also be applied to any kind of machines that displays
characteristics related with the mind of humans such as solving of problems and learning.
Artificial intelligence is nowadays used in the fashion industry for the recognition of images
and for other purposes. Fashion industry before the use of artificial intelligence, people had to
search clothes by searching the products in e-commerce sites by typing the product they
would like. However, with the advent of artificial intelligence, the people can click picture of
the product and can upload it on the fashion e-commerce1. The algorithms of artificial
intelligence will give the user an equivalent and comparable items. It has become easier and
simpler for the users to shop with the advent of machine learning. The fashion industry has
changed a lot with the introduction of artificial intelligence. The advantages of artificial
intelligence in visual recognition is that the clothes those are seen in the magazines become
shop able, improving the experience of search, find similar piece of clothing those are less
expensive2. Visual recognition in E-commerce is one of the most important features. In the
past, fashion industry would have depended on touch and sight for choosing dresses for
matching colours and fine clothes but now the algorithms of artificial intelligence has taken
its place and recommends clothes for the customers.
1 Luce, L., 2018. Artificial Intelligence for Fashion: How AI is Revolutionizing the Fashion Industry. Apress.
2 Vashisht, K. and Mittar, S., 2019, July. Artificial Intelligence as a Tool in the Online Fashion Retail Industry
to Communicate Fashion Trends. In International Conference on Fashion communication: between tradition
and future digital developments (pp. 276-282). Springer, Cham.

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Artificial intelligence as changed the fashion industry but there are several legal
frameworks that must be followed by the fashion industry and the e-commerce. Under the
law of Italy, the works those are creative must be original in order to get the protection of
copyright and the traditionally the needs of originality has been associated to the physical
person of the author3. Therefore, AI and the machines are excluded from the idea of
authorship. There is no clear protection of copyright for the fashion designs made utilising
Artificial intelligence under the law of US, Section 102(a) of the Copyright Act. There are no
particular laws that address the possession of works produced by machines. Outside the
United States, other countries have started to create a legal framework for Artificial
intelligence. The Court of Justice of the Union of Europe has declared on more than one
occasion that the protection of copyright only applies to the works those are original and that
reflect the intellectual creation of the author. There are various regulations in various other
countries outside United States consisting of UK, Hong King, India and New Zealand that
provides authorship to the person that programs the Artificial intelligence4. For example,
under the section 9(3) of the copyright of UK, the Patent and Design Act it is said that rights
in a work that is artistic and that is produced by computer are provided to the person by
whom the actions required for the development of the work are undertaken.
3 Dennis, C.A., 2019. AI-Generated Fashion Designs: Who or What Owns the Goods. Fordham Intell. Prop.
Media & Ent. LJ, 30, p.593.
4 Almeida, P., Santos, C. and Farias, J.S., 2020, January. Artificial Intelligence Regulation: A Meta-Framework
for Formulation and Governance. In Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System
Sciences.

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References
Luce, L., 2018. Artificial Intelligence for Fashion: How AI is Revolutionizing the Fashion
Industry. Apress.
Vashisht, K. and Mittar, S., 2019, July. Artificial Intelligence as a Tool in the Online Fashion
Retail Industry to Communicate Fashion Trends. In International Conference on Fashion
communication: between tradition and future digital developments (pp. 276-282). Springer,
Cham.
Dennis, C.A., 2019. AI-Generated Fashion Designs: Who or What Owns the
Goods. Fordham Intell. Prop. Media & Ent. LJ, 30, p.593.
Almeida, P., Santos, C. and Farias, J.S., 2020, January. Artificial Intelligence Regulation: A
Meta-Framework for Formulation and Governance. In Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii
International Conference on System Sciences.